Red Sox's Stellar Performance: Scoring 10 Runs a Game

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00:00The Red Sox don't have any stress right now.

00:02They've been playing fabulous baseball, and we're sitting here.

00:06You heard us betting on guys, Abreu, Roman Candle,

00:11and I'm even in on some Duran Duran for some action tonight

00:15against this righty Bradley.

00:18The Rays finally won a game last night, but they have not been playing well,

00:21and the way the Red Sox have been playing, kicking everyone's ass

00:24and scoring 10 runs a game.

00:26I mean, I've been betting on them left and right.

00:29Yeah.

00:30Well, as you should be, and riding the run line, obviously,

00:32throughout the stretch of games that they just played.

00:35But look, I don't want to be the Debbie Downer to this thing,

00:38especially with this beautiful Boston backdrop behind me,

00:40but I don't think we can talk about the Red Sox success, Scotty,

00:45without at least acknowledging the reality of who they've been playing.

00:49You know, they're 8-1 over their last nine, and that's awesome.

00:52Win the games that are on your schedule.

00:54That is the most important thing.

00:56But they've played Cincinnati, who is the dictionary definition of mediocre,

01:01and they've played Washington and Colorado, a team in the Rockies that is historically bad.

01:08Washington is flat-out terrible, but the Rockies are historically bad.

01:12So the Red Sox should be putting up, you know, whatever it is, 10 runs a game and have 18 homers over their last nine games.

01:19And, you know, I just pulled up some last nine stats, you know, just to give us the perfectly small sample size.

01:26They're hitting 340.

01:28The OBP is close to 400.

01:31The slugging is up over 600.

01:33So, obviously, you know, you put the OPS together there, that's right around 1,000.

01:38I mean, they are tearing the cover off the ball and mostly at Fenway Park.

01:42Again, doing what they are supposed to do.

01:44But whereas this Rays team is, you know, not great,

01:49like I wouldn't be afraid of them in contention for the American League East or something like that,

01:54but they are better than any of what the Red Sox just saw over the last week and a half.

02:00So, you know, I wouldn't go crazy betting on Boston tonight.

02:05In fact, I like Taj Bradley enough to say maybe Tampa first five is the play,

02:11even if you believe the Red Sox are going to ultimately win this game.

02:14I do like Tampa first five.

02:17You know, as far as some of those home run props, I mean, look, there's numbers that go into it

02:22and there's data and there's hard hit contact rate and all of these fly ball rate.

02:27All the things, I get it.

02:29You know, but at the end of the day, there's still kind of a crapshoot too.

02:32So, you know, I don't know.

02:33I would say tread carefully and let's not, you know,

02:36overemphasize what Boston has done of late to put itself now into a playoff position

02:42just before the All-Star break.

02:43Well, they had 15 hits last night

02:46and they've had at least 11 hits in the last seven games.

02:53I mean, if you're paying money to go to Fenway to see the Red Sox

02:58and they're greasing that many hits and the home runs were flying last night, right?

03:03Narvaez, Ebreu, Romy, Duran, they all hit them.

03:08Roman's been finally hitting one out at home.

03:12He hadn't hit one until just the other day.

03:15Now, what do you think of him?

03:17And can you imagine, like, if I'm a fan, I want to go see them right now

03:21the way they've been hitting?

03:23Yeah, I mean, look, Sedan Raffaella has sort of become the, of late,

03:31Rafael Devers' equivalent, right?

03:33He's been tearing the cover off the ball since Devers got traded, basically.

03:36Trevor Story, who, you know, people wanted to DFA,

03:40designate for assignment not long ago,

03:42now has had an incredible stretch since the beginning of June, basically.

03:46He has been awesome.

03:47So, look, guys have come alive.

03:49And obviously, you mentioned Roman Anthony, who's the, you know,

03:52he was the number one prospect in baseball up there anyhow.

03:56And obviously, top in the farm system and comes in.

03:58And yeah, after a little bit of a slow start, he's hitting well.

04:01And, you know, you get, you know, some of these other younger guys,

04:05whether it's Marcelo Meyer or, you know, obviously,

04:09Jaron Duran has been around for a little while,

04:11a guy that, you know, we wonder around here

04:14if he's about to get traded before the deadline.

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